Like the flashing banner with the half-nekkid bikini chick specifically selling sex plastered over every page?
I would hope that your office is professional enough to realize that you’ve no intention of masturbating or something at work; you just wanted to see the damage to this chick.
*wonders if his work even cares, shrugs, doesn’t care, will come up with excuse if necessary*

@1stMarDiv: She’s a prostitute and they were both on drugs/drunk/don’t remember. There’s plenty of blame to go around, but its safe to say that this is all reprehensible and NONE of it should ever happen.

@nakedscience: Exactly. I originally sent this story to the consumerist because in the past many consumerist posts have featured the some mention of the Shamwow. This story is just a follow up to last week’s post. While the story is not directly related to consumer news, it is newsworthy because the seriousness of the charges against Vince and how they will affect the credibility of both the infommercial star and the company that uses Vince as a spokesperson.

@Cat_In_A_Hat: It’s one thing to talk about the spokesperson’s credibility. It’s another thing to wallow in the sordid details of the woman’s injuries. The woman who, by the way, is not the spokesperson.

Personally I like the Consumerist edge. If you don’t like an article, you always have the option of skipping it. It’s especially true for this “article”, which isn’t even clickable unless you want to go to the comments. So yeah, shut the fuck up. Jesus.

@trujunglist: I’m just asking a question here, not railing against the site. I didn’t even opine that Consumerist absolutely shouldn’t be posting this…I just asked a question about the value of doing so. “Just skipping it” isn’t an option if I have a valid question.

@Corporate-Shill:I do NOT understand all these people who bitch about the content on a web site but still continue to come every day and read through all that that content just so they can bitch about what they’ve read.

Who appointed you guys the official content critics of the Internet, anyway? Wouldn’t your time be better spent frequenting sites you DO approve of?

Yeah, I’m not one to advocate violence against a woman, but I do wonder what his tongue looks like. It’s not like she just slapped him, she had his tongue. He went WAY too far, though, beyond just trying to get her off him, from what I can tell — basically they both should be hit with assault charges.

@nakedscience: I beleive if someone is biting your tongue off there is no way to go too far.

It boggles my mind that anyone would say a man went too far by hitting someone so they would stop biting his tongue off. And he should not be hit with any charges. She was BITING his tongue off. I highly doubt you wouldn’t throw a few punches to make such a thing stop.

@Corporate_guy: I think it would depend: Did he wack her a few times, and she stopped biting his tongue, and yet he CONTINUED to wack the shit out of her?

They were both charged, and I think that is appropriate, and in situations like this, it’s quite common (think of it as a bar fight). Right now we only have his word against hers (“I swear I was defending myself!” — what if he wasn’t? We don’t now that for sure yet.) Court and all that fun stuff will determine now if it was self-defense or not. That’s how our justice system WORKS.

It was self defense. This whole case sounds like a woman who purposely provoked a guy she thinks has enough money that makes him worth suing. Sadly our courts may even let her win, the police did originally charge them both despite the evidence of self defense.

@Corporate_guy: The police can’t believe contradicting evidence on both parts, so they go with the empirical evidence that they both, regardless of self-defense, beat on each other. Prosecutor decided to drop any charges because he didn’t want to mess around trying to find out which one was lying.

I don’t get the feeling he was trying to beat her, just that they were both trashed and she bit his tongue and they both beat EACH OTHER, but your comment still screams “The dirty whores deserve it, don’t talk to your man and you won’t get your ass beat!”

@Jeremy W. Simmons: I’m with you. I bit through a part of my own tongue when I was in a car wreck and that pain was beyond excruciating. I can’t imagine somebody biting down on my tongue that won’t let go and me doing anything less than what Vince did to get her off of me. If you’re actually going to bite somebody’s tongue, then you have to expect what happened to her to happen, if not worse.

Vince and the prostitute are both trash and that isn’t up for debate. The prostitute though stands to gain a lot out of this situation and it wouldn’t surprise me one bit if she did what she did to blackmail $$$ out of somebody who stands to lose his career (you just know Vince tells women that he’s the sham-wow guy). After all, she has no issue letting anyone with enough cash have their way with her, so what’s stopping her from cashing in on this potential mini-payday? She probably figured the payoff to keep quiet for a couple black eyes and a few black and blues would equal what she makes in a year turning tricks. I don’t think she expected Vince to do what he did in the lobby and get the police involved.

In her ‘profession’, she’s lucky to be alive because there are a lot of psychos walking the streets who wouldn’t think twice about killing a hooker.

What purpose does posting this serve? Does this have anything to do with consumerist, other than the fact it is the shamwow guy?

This is more TMZ’s speed than consumerist.

Despite all the news, we *don’t know* the whole situation, and I’m frankly disgusted by the comments here that say stuff like “I’d hit that” and “well she’s a hooker…” Does that give someone permission to beat the crap out of someone? So what she bit his tongue (which I can imagine would be awful)– did he really need to beat her this badly to get her to stop?

dude, what the hell is up with these comments? she bit his tongue, sure. but answer me: how many punches to the face do you need to deal someone to get them to stop biting? i guarantee she let go [if his allegation is true] after the first blow TO THE EYE.

@katieoh: I agree. I’m also wondering how he got both of her eyes if she was biting his tongue. Granted, I don’t make a practice out of punching people in the eye (or anywhere else, for that matter), but I would think that would be a weird angle to hit someone in the eye when they’re right in your face. I’m surprised there isn’t a huge bruise on her forehead or the side of her face – that’s where I would think it would be easier to hit.